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Friday, 15 June 2012

Here's One I Prepared Earlier

Another inspiration imitation of Ringle and Kerr's (-this time Chorus Line), my younger son loves this predominantly primary coloured quilt I made for him a couple of years ago.

I don't copy so slavishly these days, but I can attribute becoming more daring recently, to what I've learned by looking at others I admire and practising the skills.

Alfred decided it would be fun to climb a tree and hang the quilt down for the photo shoot since the tree's a bit short of leaves at the moment!

The design consists of increasing bands of colour on a background of batik blue with a tiny green dot.

Most of the colored strips were scraps left over from other quilts I'd made, but I bought the batik specially. I had some beautiful soft flannels in my stash , which I'd bought ages ago with Alfred's quilt back in mind, at that stage I knew he wanted a primary colored quilt but that was as far as I'd got. So I bought enough of the blue and red in a sale for a quilt back for him, but it had sat for several years, through one international and one local move! Eventually though, I do get around to things, even if I'm not speedy about it! Lucky he didn't change his mind about colour preference!

I wanted to include some yellow (not a flannel) to finish off the primary plan. And pieced it to suggest the bars of colour on the front and add a bit of interest, rather than having a plain back. The quilt is twin size. One struggle I had was that the check design is not actually printed exactly straight with the grain of the fabric and I thought it would really make a difference if it looked straight, so that was a bit of a challenge to line up. Same issue with the binding, although I didn't fuss as much about that.

For the quilting I decided to leave the bars plain, so they would stand out in relief and quilt the background from top to bottom in a zigzag pattern; dense alternating with less dense across the quilt. I used a variegated blue thread.

It's a success and last year I made him a square pillow cover with a few more leftovers, for sitting up and reading in bed, or wherever... He seems happy enough about it!

Yes in my family a few can speak German tho' not me! I am in Australia, but my immediate family are in NZ and most of my extended family are in the UK these days, tho a few Fischbachers still in Switzerland- we wander around!

My daughter is marrying an Australian in November, and a part of my family migrated in the vineyard country north of Melbourne a long time ago, (with M. La Trobe.) So I guess there are travelers in all families!

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